A new video shows police officers in the United States have brutally shot dead a mentally ill African-American man in front of his mother.<\/p>\n
Jason Harrison, 39, was killed by police in Dallas in June 2014, but the body-camera video of the shooting incident was released on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officers were present at the scene following a call by Jason\u2019s mother to help her to take him to a local hospital.<\/p>\n
Jason was suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, according to the Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n
The video showed an officer knocked on the front door of a home and the mother opened the door and walked outside.<\/p>\n
Then Harrison who was holding a screwdriver in his hand stood in the doorway.<\/p>\n
Police officers John Rodgers and Andrew Hutchins told the victim to drop the screwdriver, when he refused they began to shoot Jason five times.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the most heartbreaking experience in my life,\u201d his mother, Shirley Harrison, told NBC. \u201cTo stand there helpless, he’s helpless. I couldn’t help him. To be gunned down right before my eye.\u201d<\/p>\n
The release of the video comes as US police is under fire for the use of deadly force against black people.<\/p>\n
The shooting deaths of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the killing of Eric Garner in New York City last year raise questioned about police brutality against minorities(\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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